Roman Catholic church music in England, 1791-1914
Subtitle: a handmaid of the liturgy?
By: by T.E. Muir.
Series: Music in nineteenth-century Britain
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780754661054
Subjects: Church music -- England -- 19th century.; Church music -- Catholic Church.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-277), discography (p. 270), and index.
Table of contents: value: Heritage, history and liturgy. The historical background ; The liturgical framework; value: Catholic music in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Plainchant in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; value: Music at the London embassy chapels and their successors; value: Ultramontane influences on Catholic church music. Plainchant reinterpreted ; The revival of renaissance polyphony; value: Music for extra-liturgical services. Catholic vernacular hymnody c. 1842-1913 ; Music for benediction; value: The iron frame: Catholic music during the early twentieth century. The new legislative framework ; Plainchant from Solesmes ; Renaissance polyphony with an English inflexion: the work of Sir Richard Terry ; Catholic church music in the early twentieth century: visions of uniformity-diverse reality.